Saturday, May 18, 2024
Sustainable Development
<! Goal 10.7 of the SDGs reflects this to “Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.” In Migration is Development, Sutherland wrote, “…there is no greater symbol of the world’s growing interdependence than the movement of people. If we can make...
Institute for Energy Research When Vermont Yankee was set to close, activists such as Bill McKibben claimed that Vermont “is completely capable of replacing (and far more) its power output with renewables, which is why my roof is covered with solar panels.” This isn’t what happened. Instead, natural gas generation...
<! In light of writings such as these, it is quite deceptive to claim that a revenue-neutral carbon tax would “work” in the United States. Just look at what happened in California to the “dedicated” uses of their cap-and-trade revenue. Conclusion The American public is being sold a bill of goods regarding...
Paris Climate Change
<! The USGCRP, with a FY 2014 enacted budget of $2,489,000,000 (not including State and USAID), has systematically ignored a critical component of its legal mandate to understand natural processes of global change. The entity is acting outside of its legal powers. Reducing or eliminating its budget is not an...